For us winter break is here! It is wet, it is cold, but is holiday time.

I started to put together some of my phonic work that I have been using over the last 20ish years.

I wanted to get rid of paper files and put these together and update the work so that it was accessible in digital format.

I teach them in a specfiic order

S-A-T-P-I-N

then

C-K-E-H-R-M-D

then

G-O-U-L-F-B

then

J-Z-W-V-Y-X-QU

So I am working on 'Rr' and 'Mm' and 'Dd' is done.

So my next bundle will be ready by the end of tomorrow.

Last Saturday night a very special young lady had a very special night. We have an event here where you make your debut. It is an old tradition where you get presented with a group of young girls and dress in white and dance alot at a Ball.

My daughter didn't want to make hers - she is the gorgeous girl in black and white.

I have been best buddies with Courtney's mum since the 80's and our girls are also best friends. It was a great night and dancing to 'Jellybean Addiction' was also a blast.

Don't the young men in the suits look handsome too?

Ballarat is in real winter mode and I so wish I was back in Singapore.

I visited my hairdresser this week and went from one block of colour to this. I love it and it goes with my new short hair. Sometimes change is needed and I am so pleased I went for it.

So - my name is Paula and I am addicted to coffee, clip art, shoes and handbags.

I have so much clip art that I could never use it all. Do I keep buying it - yes!

Coffee - one with breakfast, one when I get to work, one at recess, lunch, after school and when I get home. I cannot and will not drink inferior coffee, instant no way, decaf - are you kidding? It has to be great coffee, life is to short to compromise on this.

Handbags and shoes - well my husband may have to give away all his space in a walk in......

Cara has grown up in the shadow of the Wall, in a closed world
of food shortages and high security. Her parents are dedicated to their secret
work for the government, and it’s only a matter of time before her gifted
younger sister follows in their footsteps.

It’s all Cara has ever known, until the summer she meets Ava and
Leon. Ava doesn't care about rules. Nothing will ever be the same.

Another new text is

The blurb says......

Can one person make the world a better
place? Or are some things simply too

big for an eleven-year-old boy to solve
on his own?

When Jesse decides to help Kate ‘Save the
Whales’ he realises that

sometimes, it’s the little things people
do that make a difference. Will Hunter,

the school bully, ruin their efforts? Or
is there more to Hunter than meets the

eye?

Bleakboy and Hunter Stand Out in the Rain
is a humorous and inspirational

story about the unlikely friendship
between two very different boys and the